It is certainly possible to declare Pascal string literals with not much hassle: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7648947/declaring-pascal-style-strings-in-c

It is certainly possible to declare Pascal string literals with not much hassle: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7648947/declaring-pascal-style-strings-in-c https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7648947/declaring-pascal... One of the answers states that GCC and Clang do have support for Pascal strings. Probably these strings do not work as (well) in #defines, i.e. they don't concat like regular literals.